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Chorabschluss des Ulmer Münsters mit über 15 Meter hohen Fenstern aus dem 14. und 15. Jahrhundert.
Stained glass windows in the apse of the Ulm Minster. They show biblical scenes and go back to the 14th and 15th century.
This is the Mirador y Ermita del Espiritu Santo summit overlooking the community of Vera, in Andalucia, Spain.
This is the nearest town to the Villa we rented this winter and the conical shaped hill can be seen for miles around with the white statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus perched on its lofty summit.
I have taken lots of shots of this place, but on this night during our last week here, the sky was biblical, so I made a frantic dash for the hill and managed to get some shots before the clouds moved on and the November light went.
This is the site of an ancient Islamic settlement from the 12th Century when it was known as Bayra (Vera is actually pronounced "Bayra" in Spanish). Its origins as a Hill Fort go back much further with a Roman settlement on the Via Agusta route and a Carthaginian outpost here before that. Artefacts have been found here going back to the Bronze Age around 2000 BC.
The town of Bayra was destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 1518, with the epicentre around this hill. The modern town of Vera today was constructed a little further from this hill than the original settlement.
The cloister was constructed in the second half of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th century for the use of the Canons, the priests who attended the bishop and managed the church property. Under a reform instituted by Pope Gregory, the Canons were required to live like monks, with a common dormitory, refectory and cloister within the cathedral enclosure, separated by a wall from the city.
The galleries feature both Romanesque and Gothic architectural features and are decorated with intricately carved columns and capitals.
Here you can see statues and bas-relief sculptures depicting various religious and local figures as well as historical and biblical scenes such as The Last Supper.
This is the coastline of the Aegean Sea. It was pre-dawn and the sun lit the place up so much that it seemed like a real place from scripture.
Sind Rotkehlchen Boten des Himmels?
Im Allgemeinen werden Vögel als Boten aus dem geistigen Reich betrachtet. Im Grunde sind sie die Verbindung zwischen Himmel und Erde und haben eine tiefe symbolische Bedeutung. In diesem Sinne werden Rotkehlchen, ein Zeichen des Himmels, oft als Boten des Göttlichen und der Engel verwendet, um dich daran zu erinnern, dass du nicht allein bist.
Die bekannte Redewendung „Wenn Rotkehlchen auftauchen, sind geliebte Menschen in der Nähe“ spielt auf den Glauben an, dass das Rotkehlchen ein Bote ist. Wenn Rotkehlchen zu sehen sind, trösten sich manche Menschen damit, dass geliebte Menschen in Frieden ruhen, und viele glauben, dass ihre verlorenen Angehörigen sie besuchen.
Auch in Christuslegenden spielt das Rotkehlchen eine Rolle. Der Legende nach sang das Rotkehlchen dem gekreuzigten Jesus Trostlieder, um sein Leiden zu mildern. Als sich ein Dorn aus Jesus Krone löste, färbten die spritzenden Blutstropfen die Brust des Vogels rot.
In old mythologies and legends the Robin as a spirit animal was also a symbol of passion and honour. It is also believed that the robin is a divine bird. The robins are also called spring birds because they symbolize renewal and new birth.
Native Americans believed that all birds are messengers of the Gods and Goddesses. They honored most birds and regarded them as spirit guides. The robin is no different. The Natives believed robin is sign of an angel as well as ‘relationship’ birds.
Most of the legends, folklores and robin bird symbolism come from European robins, which have been transferred to American robin flying. The European robin is known scientifically as Erithacus rubecula.
'Biblical'. I enjoyed a wild camp on Kinder Scout on Tuesday nigh. For the whole day, the weather pattern was repeated cycles of hail-storms, high winds and rainbows. It made photography extremely difficult, but what an experience it was to be amongst it!
This is certainly no compositional masterpiece, however it difficult enough just taking the image.
Thanks for looking.
thank you annika for posing with me!
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I used Photoshop for the borders on these three sunset photos, otherwise... it was one of the most incredible sunsets I've ever seen!
Not sure how these look online, let me know what ya think!
Did you know that there are three references to Bitterns in the original King James Bible (first published 1611)? All of them are Old Testament and all refer to the aftermath of God destroying cities. Here's a quote about the destruction of Babylon from Isaiah 14:23: “I will also make it a possession of the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.” Zephaniah 2:14 and Isaiah 34:11 refer to God’s destruction of Niniveh and Edom respectively and refer to Bitterns inhabiting the ruins afterwards. The occurrence of Bitterns at Babylon, Niniveh and Edom would suggest that God’s most routine punishment was flood, but later versions such as the New English Bible (Old Testament published 1970) replaced Bitterns with Bustards, a desert dwelling group of birds, thus completely changing the manner of desecration of these three cities.
Back to the Bittern, this was taken at Far Ings a few weeks back.
La basilique Saint-Martin de Tours est un édifice religieux situé à Tours (Indre-et-Loire), dont la crypte abrite le tombeau de Martin de Tours.
Whenever I see a sunset like this, I expect to hear a big voice coming from the sky to give me a really important message. I never get them unless the message is to photograph the moment.
Explored Aug 27, 2008 #2...then #15...then #20...then #1. Who knows where it goes from there!
This photo is one of many in my new book called Through Len's Lens.
This is available for purchase at Red Bubble.
I now own and operate www.EcuadorPhotoTours.com
We had just got back to base when yet another rain storm came through, this one was really heavy but it brought an unexpected surprise of a lovely rainbow, I stepped outside to take a few shots and this one had the least rain spots on my lens.
A week of rain and sunshine a good mixture I would say to make photography interesting, most of the shots I took are just what caught my eye, from a couple of sunrise mornings to trying to shoot the Northern lights, of which they did not show but some night shots none the less, Some low level military aircraft, Challenging architecture shots in the City of Oxford but mostly images that just caught my eye.
This shot is the pond at the farm which we were staying on.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fast running out of new images to process and not a single outing in August so far which will blow another New Year’s resolution. So again, forced to resort to archive dipping. It’s always a dilemma I feel how far back you should go, but I hit on this idea which gives me free rein to look at anything I taken since taking up photography.
So here is my first entry into a new album titled – Around the World in Eighty Shots
I showed this photograph to my son who said that it "messed with his head", mainly because two thirds of the "sky" is actually polar ice cap covered with snow. And to add to the confusion there's also a bit of a Fata Morgana mirage going on where the glacier meets the sea. But that myriad of specks are all Brunnich's Guillemots (aka Thick-billed Murres in America) flying to and from their nesting cliffs. This was taken near the cliffs at Alkefjellet in eastern Spitsbergen where 60,000 pairs of Brunnich's Guillemots breed. Though at first glance it looks like one of the Biblical plagues of Egypt, maybe Locusts?
Three shot panoramic of the cloisters in Gloucester Cathedral, using my Nikon D810 + 24mm tilt shift lens hand held, which is not the easiest thing to do!
The Timna Valley is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arabah, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the town of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium BCE. There is controversy whether the mines were active during the Kingdom of Israel and the biblical King Solomon.[1]
A large section of the valley, containing ancient remnants of copper mining and ancient worship, is encompassed in a recreation park.
In July 2011, the Israeli government approved the construction of an international airport, the Timna Airport, in the Timna valley.
Copper mining[edit]
Copper has been mined in the area since the 5th or 6th millennium BCE.[3] Archaeological excavation indicates that the copper mines in Timna Valley were probably part of the Kingdom of Edom and worked by the Edomites, described as biblical foes of the Israelites,[4] during the 10th century BCE, the period of the legendary King Solomon.[5] Mining continued by the Israelites and Nabateans through to the Roman period and the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, and then by the Ummayads from the Arabian Peninsula after the Arab conquest (in the 7th century CE) until the copper ore became scarce.[6]
The copper was used for ornaments, but more importantly for stone cutting, as saws, in conjunction with sand.[7]
The recent excavations dating copper mining to the 10th century BCE also discovered what may be the earliest camel bones with signs of domestication found in Israel or even outside the Arabian peninsula, dating to around 930 BCE. This is seen as evidence by the excavators that the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Jacob and Esau were written or rewritten after this time seeing that the Biblical books frequently reference traveling with caravans of domesticated camels.[8]
Modern history
Scientific attention and public interest was aroused in the 1930s, when Nelson Glueck attributed the copper mining at Timna to King Solomon (10th century BCE) and named the site "King Solomon's Mines". These were considered by most archaeologists to be earlier than the Solomonic period until an archaeological excavation led by Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University's found evidence indicating that this area was being mined by Edomites, a group who the Bible says were frequently at war with Israel.[10][11]
In 1959, Professor Beno Rothenberg, director of the Institute for Archeo-Metallurgical Studies at University College, London, led the Arabah Expedition, sponsored by the Eretz Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology. The expedition included a deep excavation of Timna Valley, and by 1990 he discovered 10,000 copper mines and smelting camps with furnaces, rock drawings, geological features, shrines, temples, an Egyptian mining sanctuary, jewelry, and other artifacts never before found anywhere in the world.[12] His excavation and restoration of the area allowed for the reconstruction of Timna Valley’s long and complex history of copper production, from the Late Neolithic period to the Middle Ages.[13]
The modern state of Israel also began mining copper on the eastern edge of the valley in 1955, but ceased in 1976. The mine was reopened in 1980. The mine was named Timnah after a Biblical chief.
Geological features
Timna Valley is notable for its uncommon stone formations and sand. Although predominantly red, the sand can be yellow, orange, grey, dark brown, or black. Light green or blue sand occurs near the copper mines. Water and wind erosion have created several unusual formations that are only found in similar climates.
Solomon's Pillars
The most striking and well-known formation in Timna Valley are Solomon's Pillars. The pillars are natural structures that were formed by centuries of water erosion through fractures in the sandstone cliff until it became a series of distinct, pillar-shaped structures.[6]
American archaeologist Nelson Glueck caused a surge of attention for the pillars in the 1930s. He claimed that the pillars were related to King Solomon and gave them the name "Solomon's Pillars".[citation needed] Although his hypothesis lacked support and has not been accepted, the name stuck, and the claim gave the valley the attention that helped bring about the excavations and current national park.
The pillars are known as the backdrop for evening concerts and dance performances the park presents in the summer.[15]
Mushroom
The Mushroom is an unusual monolithic, mushroom-shaped, red sandstone rock formation known as a hoodoo. The mushroom shape was caused by wind, humidity, and water erosion over centuries.[15] The Mushroom is surrounded by copper ore smelting sites from between the 14th and 12th centuries BCE.[6]
Arches[edit]
The Arches are natural arches formed by erosion, as well, and can be seen along the western cliff of the valley. Arches are not as rare as Solomon's Pillars and the Mushroom, and similar structures can be found in elsewhere in the world. The walking trail that goes to the Arches also goes past the copper mine shafts.[6]
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"Biblical" won November's Monthly Digital Challenge Competition "After Dark (No Flash)" at Christchurch Photographic Society this evening...
Vintage processing thanks largely to summer painterly flypapers....Stygian tin in fact.
Much better bigger on black so press the L key :-)
Wandering in the desert. Sometimes it's an allegory and sometime it isn't. In this case, it's a Southern Utah canyon in Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park.
The fog was biblical this morning, and lasted for most of the day! However, work commitments and lack of battery power meant I had about 5 minutes to snap up some shots.
Povoa De Santo Adrião, Lisboa, Portugal
This was a technically difficult photo given the very low light in the church and the fact that I was shooting straight up .... it's from a wonderful small church in the village where my wife, Rosa was born. The wooden panels in the ceiling depict various stories from the bible and each is intricate, artful and ornate. Rosa has memories as a child of each of these ... staring up at them and waiting impatiently for the Sunday service to end so that she could go outside and play.